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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fore",
"3": "front"
},
"expansion": "fore- + front",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English forefrount, forfrount, forefronte, equivalent to fore- + front.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "forefronts",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "forefronting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "forefronted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "forefronted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "forefront (third-person singular simple present forefronts, present participle forefronting, simple past and past participle forefronted)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2015 July 8, Anne Rogers et al., “Meso level influences on long term condition self-management: stakeholder accounts of commonalities and differences across six European countries”, in BMC Public Health, volume 15, →DOI",
"text": "The impact of austerity and economic circumstances were forefronted in the more economically deprived countries of the partner countries (BG, GR) and seen as producing a fateful impact on access to diet and healthy lifestyle options.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To bring to the forefront; to emphasize, or focus on."
],
"links": [
[
"emphasize",
"emphasize"
],
[
"focus",
"focus"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To bring to the forefront; to emphasize, or focus on."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɔɹfɹʌnt/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɔːfɹʌnt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/fo(ː)ɹfɹʌnt/",
"note": "rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger"
},
{
"ipa": "/foəfɹʌnt/",
"note": "non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)fɹʌnt"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-forefront.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/be/En-us-forefront.ogg/En-us-forefront.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/En-us-forefront.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "forefront"
}
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